Murder By Forwarding Address

In Cedar Springs, Georgia, postmistress Tessa Quill knows mail can reveal more than people intend.

When a forwarding request arrives for elderly Leland Pruitt, Tessa notices something wrong at once. Leland has not moved. He has not told anyone he is leaving. And the new address on the form points to the abandoned Caldwell farmhouse, a place Cedar Springs has avoided discussing for decades.

Then Leland misses his usual bakery breakfast, his mail goes uncollected, and a body is found near the farmhouse carrying Leland’s identification.

But the dead man is not Leland.

With her sharp-eyed Maine Coon, Archibald, silently judging every clue, Tessa follows a trail of misdirected mail, courthouse records, family secrets, and a forged letter from the past. Someone has been using paperwork to erase people one envelope at a time — and if Tessa does not uncover the truth, Leland may disappear from Cedar Springs for good.

Warm, witty, and gently suspenseful, Murder By Forwarding Address is a small-town Southern cozy mystery featuring an amateur sleuth, a clever cat, bakery gossip, old inheritance secrets, and a crime solved without gore or grit.